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Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995. Second edition. Paperback. 7 x 10, 275 pgs, index, bibliography, glossary, charts. Complete, reader-friendly explanation of the Lone Star State's weather phenomena. More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995. Second edition. Paperback. 7 x 10, 275 pgs, index, bibliography, glossary, charts. Complete, reader-friendly explanation of the Lone Star State's weather phenomena. More
Austin, TX: The Encino Press, 1970. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 64 pgs, b&w photos. Beautiful black and white photos of Texas ground. More
New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 322 pgs, index, bibliography, notes. In a book often shocking, always passionate and inevitably controversial, the author brings desperately needed illumination to one of the most important and emotional issues of our time: the threat to Africa's wildlife, and especially..... More
New York: Knopf, 1983. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 186 pgs, color photos throughout. A glorious celebration of America's woodlands' with almost 80 fantastic, informal essays portraying various tree species and nature scenes captured in beautiful colour photographs. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1967. Third printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 377 pgs. 5 x 8, 377 pgs. Spend a year in the foothills of the Berkshires with this country observer - grass spiders, sugar maples, dragonflies, kingfishers and more. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 180 pgs. Historical novel based on the life of Juan de Pareja, the black assistant to the 17th-century Spanish painter Velazquez. More
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 160 pgs. Historical novel based on the life of Juan de Pareja, the black assistant to the 17th-century Spanish painter Velazquez. More
Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 10 x 14, 256 pgs, index, color photos throughout. A beautiful coffee-table style book features forty-nine of our most photographed parks. More
New York: Knopf, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 340 pgs. The author's first novel - both heart-piercing and freshly funny, at once strikingly contemporary in its fix on life and timeless in its power to move us - tells the story of an American family transplanted..... More
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 144 pgs. Encompassing a vast gamut of personalities, situations, and emotions, these stories penetrate our motives for doing what is right. Won the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction. Signed and inscribed..... More
New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 190 pgs. In this collection of short stories, the author "brings us into familiar territory of family relationships and brilliantly describes the strain, the humor, the confusion, and the kaleidoscope of feelings these bonds evoke." Signed by the..... More
New York: Knopf, 1993. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 333 pgs. This is a "thoughtful, funny, and penetrating portrait of a modern American family that explores the breaches and bonds between husbands and wives, parents and children, and introduces one of the most antic teenagers since Holden Caulfield. "Inscribed and signed..... More
Fresno, CA: Panorama West Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 177 pgs, index, notes, bibliography, mapped endsheets, b&w historical photos. Colorful stories of one family's experience in the early American mining scene, and tracing the origins of the U.S. Mining Laws adopted by the U.S. Government in 1876..... More
New York: Lyons Press, 1999. First printing. Paperback. 5 x 9, 115 pgs, index, b&w photos. How to coax gobblers onto range, make decoys work for you, how to use box, slate and diaphragm calls, guns for the game, safety tips, guide to gear and clothing and more! More
New York: Time-Life Books, 1980. Later printing. Leather Bound. Classics of the Old West Edition, originally published in 1891. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 491 pgs, facsimile reproduction. A first-hand account of Crook's campaigns during the Plains Indian wars an din the Southwest - really brings to life the whole..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2,174 pgs, index, notes. Assessing the critical impact of population growth and increased immigration on American environmental resources, two public policy experts argue that lower immigration levels must be established and behavior must be altered to conserve resources and..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1985. First, thus. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 9, 174 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations. Addresses the "mining" and destruction of water resources in the American Southwest. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 680 pgs, index. A definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis tells the unforgettable story through the eyes of the hostages, their Iranian captors and the American special operations soldiers and pilots who tried to end the crisis with..... More
New York: Avon, 1990. Paperback. 5 x 8, 367 pgs, index, section of b&w historical photos. A fully rounded portrait of the military genius studied by both Rommel and Patton in WWII, a general who, in the beginning was spat at and cursed by his men and who ended as..... More
New York: Lyons & Burford, 1985. Later printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 83 pgs, index, b&w photos. The fundamentals of wing shooting: the correct stance, timing and motion, equipment and safety procedures described in detail. More
New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1943. Paperback. 4 1/2 x 7, 308 pgs, b&w illustrations. Great piece of cub scout memorabilia. Slight damp stain at back of book. Previous owner's name written on first inside page. More
New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1947. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 32 pgs, b&w illustrations. Neat old Cub Scout planning book. Clean and unmarked. More
New Brunswick, NJ: Boy Scouts of America, 1960. Paperback. 5 x 8, 188 pgs, b&w and color illustrations. A nice copy of a boy scout handbook. Rubbed cover, previous owner's name on first page. More
Published/Printed by the author, 2007. Paperback. 6 x 9, 458 pgs. Five U.S. cities are destroyed by Islamic terrorists using nuclear devices. MG George Alexander, Secretary of Homeland Security, becomes president, forms an interim government, pulls the nation together, and then confronts the Islamic whirlwind sweeping across the globe. More
Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004. 6 x 9, 331 pgs. A grand saga in the genre of James Clavell's Shogun and Tia-Pan, with a little Clancy thrown in. Spanning over sixty years the story sweeps across Russia, central Asia, and into the United States. The cast of characters include Soviet scientists..... More